Let earth and heaven combine

Let earth and heaven combine. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns for the Nativity of our Lord (1744) in six 6-line stanzas, where it was Hymn V of a small collection of XVIII hymns. It was not included in John Wesley’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), but it appeared in the 1831 edition with Supplement, with the omission of stanza 3. The 1744 text was as follows: Let Earth and Heaven combine,  Angels and Men agreeTo praise in Songs divine  Th’ Incarnate Deity,Our God contracted to a Span,Incomprehensibly made Man. He laid his Glory by,  He wrap’d Him in our Clay,Unmark’d by Human Eye  The latent Godhead lay;Infant of Days He...